Word Meanings - PROCRUSTESIAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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• PROCRUSTEAN
  Of or pertaining to Procrustes, or the mode of torture practiced by him; producing conformity by violent means; as, the Procrustean treatment; a Procrustean limit. See Procrustes.
• PROCRUSTEANIZE
  To stretch or contract according to some rule or standard.